Apple Gives $100 Store Credit To iPhone Customers

MooRogue writes "In an open letter to all iPhone customers, Steve Jobs responds to hundreds of emails from upset iPhone customers. Apple will be giving early adopters who are not receiving rebates or any other consideration $100 store credit at the Apple store. Details will be posted on the Apple website next week"

Comments

Woohoo!

[Cajun Hell]

I just found 1300 iPhones in a dumpster. That's $130,000!

Just be sure credit not handled by Vastech

[ackthpt]

The dumpster hungers.

Re:next week....

[Bomarc]

... and send the request to Vastech, located on Bonaventura Drive in San Jose.

Re:Why the surprise?

[DeepZenPill]

Unfortunately I only bought my iphone because my beloved Samsung D807 suffered a premature demise.

That said, I think most of us early adopters aren't angry so much that we might have saved $200 by waiting, but by the fact that all kinds of riffraff can now afford the most fabulous object in the world. We paid a premium to assert our superiority and now we have to hear: "Oh, you bought it before the price drop?"

Re:Why not $200 store credit?

[MightyMartian]

Fuck you broke asshole

Hmmm... I'm trying to decipher this. Is English not your first language? Are you saying there's something with my anatomy? Are you saying someone should copulate with me until I cease to function?

Re:Whiners

[Anonymous Coward]

I have never bought a product that had its regular price reduced by 33% after two months.

I guess you didn't get in on the Vonage IPO then.

eBayers the worst kind of suckers

[grondak]

So they bought their phone on eBay, 'cause they were all out, or 'cause they got it for $559 ("cheapest price on the Internet!"). Now they have no recourse to "their $100" and just to rub salt in the wound, the guy who bought it at the store gets another $100.

Or, the guys all trying to sell the iPhones for $559 just had "their market" bottom out. To sell, they have to get price-competitive. There's a $100 pantsing they have to suffer.

Whoops! Speculation has its price!

Re:Why not $200 store credit?

[Mr2001]

So, by 2019, it'll be Christmas year-round? Yay!!

Re:Why not $200 store credit?

[Chris Burke]

Is intel going to send them a free core?

The mental image of some geek at his house opening the mail to find a little 40 mm^2 (or whatever the area of a single xeon core is these days) piece of silicon and going "wtf am i going to do with this?!" made me laugh. Thanks :)

Re:squirt...

[Jerry Rivers]

There are Zune owners?

An open letter to Steve Jobs

[bgspence]

Hey Steve,

I'm pissed. I didn't buy an iPhone because I was waiting for the price to drop. And, now your'e refunding a big part of the price cut.

  I missed out on all the ohs and ahs of showing one off. You owe me big time.

Re:An open letter to Steve Jobs

[bnenning]

I'm with you. Let's all mail Steve and see if we can get a $50 credit to compensate for the $100 savings that he stole from us.

Re:accdb?

[flosofl]

Where I work, we use a lot of Microsoft Access. Does Apple make anything like that?

No, but there have been great strides in mental health related pharmacology that may help with that Access usage.